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06/04/2008, 20:18 woolybanana'sbrother Joined on 18/01/2008 Posts 963 Re: Bay tree thank you Clair.    Report

07/04/2008, 10:56 Framboise Joined on 29/11/2006 At home in the Orne Posts 475 Re: Bay tree We inherited a large sweet bay in our farmhouse in 61.  OH had to annihilate it to fit in the new gas tank so we thought it was a goner, yet two years later its as if nothing had happenned because its green  abundant again.  No worries about the cold even here - it grows happily! Maybe you don't need to take a cutting either as I noticed ours has thrown tiny little seedling bay trees maybe up to five feet away.   Have a scavenge about and you might find same.    Report

07/04/2008, 16:12 cassis Joined on 28/12/2007 Manhattan and Glasgow Posts 308 Re: Bay tree Our experience has been the same as Framboise's.  Protection from even heavy frost does not seem to be an issue (in Sarthe, 72).  More of an issue is the size they eventually grow to if left to their own devices - up to 10 metres high and almost as big through in good conditions.  And yes, the pesky things do seed everywhere.  I've trained one into a corkscrew shape as a punishment and a warning to others. Zoggy played guitar, jammin' good with Weird and Golly. Lyrics copyright Sausage Music 2008    Report

17/04/2008, 17:30 tracteurtom Joined on 09/01/2007 19 Correze Posts 310 Re: Bay tree Yes another warning on these sweet bay trees.  I have one growing out of the side of the four-a-pain.  Tried cuting it back to nothing (well almost, cant get to the base as its in the wall) and weed killer, it just seems to respond by growing back even stronger.  We love the bay leaves, but not when it threatens a stone building.  Anyone any clues on how I can kill it ?    Report

17/04/2008, 17:38 NormanH Joined on 10/04/2008 Posts 179 Re: Bay tree I believe that oleander (laurier rose) is also very poisonous And it is so pretty... Toxicité : C’est une des plante les plus dangereuses de nos régions. Feuilles, fleurs, écorce et bois, frais ou séchés, sont toxiques à très faible dose. On considère qu’une seule feuille peut être mortelle pour l’homme. 'it is one of the post dangerous plants found in our region: leaves, flowers, bark and stem, fresh or dried are poisonois in even very small quantities. Even a single leaf can be deadly.' http://www.aujardin.info/plantes/laurier-rose.php    Report

17/04/2008, 17:55 cassis Joined on 28/12/2007 Manhattan and Glasgow Posts 308 Re: Bay tree  pcwhizz wrote: Yes another warning on these sweet bay trees.  I have one growing out of the side of the four-a-pain.  Tried cuting it back to nothing (well almost, cant get to the base as its in the wall) and weed killer, it just seems to respond by growing back even stronger.  We love the bay leaves, but not when it threatens a stone building.  Anyone any clues on how I can kill it ? Cut it down again.  Drill holes in the stump.  Fill with "destructeur de souches".  I've killed several unwanted trees that way. Zoggy played guitar, jammin' good with Weird and Golly. Lyrics copyright Sausage Music 2008    Report

18/04/2008, 9:57 tracteurtom Joined on 09/01/2007 19 Correze Posts 310 Re: Bay tree Hah, yes of course.  Thanks Cassis, I'll give that a try. Also useful for those peskey Ash / Rowan trees that come from nothing to great big impossible to do anything with monsters !    Report

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